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EARLY SETTLEMENT OF SOUTHWESTERN
MICHIGAN BY A. B. COPLEY.
June 7, 1882.
In 1833 Mr. Harrington returned again to Black River, which in the meantime had grown to be quite a settlement, and went into the employ of Jonathan Burtch, who had a general store, doing a good business on both sides of the St. Clair, and during the year he purchased the business and conducted it in his own name, selling out in the spring of 1835 to Willard Orvis of Monroe.
In June, 1835, he made a visit to his brother, E. B. H., at Whitestown, N. Y., where he was engaged in the study of the law with Judge Fortune C. White.
Through the acquaintance thus made with Judge White, Daniel formed with him a partnership for the improvement of the mouth of the Black river, and in July, 1835, they bought eighty acres with a river front of 300 feet and a half-mile front on what is now known as Military street, Port Huron.
Mr. Harrington became the active partner in this investment, and had the town laid out and platted in what was then known as the township of Desmond, taking the plan of alleys between streets from the similar plan in Philadelphia. In order to enable him to straighten Military street, he afterward purchased forty acres on the south of his eighty-acre tract, known as the Carlysle- farm.
From 1835 to 1848 Mr. H. continued his partnership with Judge White in projecting improvements and operating in real estate.
In 1837 the village was given its name—Port Huron, which name was afterward adopted for the township.
January 20, 18-10, he married Miss Sarah E. Luce, of Pittsfield, Mass., whose parents came to Michigan in 1836.
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